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New York City – Taking advantage of an increase in the support of progressive and younger voters, the Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani is a big more step to become the first Muslim mayor of the most populous city in the country.
While the Associated Press had not yet projected a winner of the Mayoral primary of the New York Democratic Party on Tuesday evening, the former governor. Andrew Cuomo I saw the writing on the wall, saying to the supporters during an electoral evening bringing together that Mamdani “won”.
Mamdani, a member of the State assembly of 33 years of Queens, from Uganda, exceeded the former governor with three mandates and nine other candidates in a primary field overcrowded in an election determined by the vote of choice. He will be considered the favorite of the general elections of November in the highly blue city.
“Tonight, the evening of the Mamdani Assembly, and he led a big campaign,” said Cuomo on Tuesday in front of the supporters. “He touched the young people and inspired them and moved them and brought them out and voting them. He really led a very impactful campaign. I called him. I congratulated him. I sincerely applaud him for his efforts.”
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Zohran Mamdani, an assembly of New York State and candidate for the Democratic Socialist Town Hall for New York, passed the former governor Andrew Cuomo to win the primary of the Democratic Party of June 24, 2025. (Bing Guan / Reuters)
Cuomo added that “Tonight is his night. He deserved it. He won.”
While the unofficial results of the first voting series have flowed, in which Mamdani directed Tuesday evening, Cuomo told his supporters that his campaign “would have conversations” about how to help the Democratic Party and New York City in the future.
“”Now I want to look at all the figures, as they happen and this choice classified to vote and, what the figures say and really do, “added Cuomo.
A Cuomo campaign assistant, following the speech of the former governor, said that Cuomo left the door open for a possible candidacy as a third party or independent candidate in November.
“I want to look at all the figures as they arrive and analyze the vote on the choice of rank. I will then consult my colleagues on what is the best way for me to help the city of New York, because I have already qualified to appear to a mayor on an independent line in November,” Cuomo said in a statement.
The former governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, in a speech to the supporters, recognizes that the Rival Zohran Mamdani “ won ” The primary of the town hall of the Democratic Party of New York, on June 24, 2025 in New York, NY, NY (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)
Through the city during an election evening celebration, Mamdani confirmed that Cuomo called him to concede the race when they discussed the “need to bring this city together”, then invited the New York Brad Lander controller to thank him for having demonstrated the “power of the future policy”.
Mamdani was presented by the famous Attorney General of Trump-Foe New York Letitia James, saying to his supporters just after midnight, “Tonight, we made the story”.
“I will be your Democratic candidate for the mayor of New York,” said Mamdani.
The Democratic socialist described his vision of the future of New York as a place “where the mayor will use his power to reject the fascism of Donald Trump, to prevent mass ice agents from deporting our neighbors and to govern our city as a model for the Democratic Party”.
“I will be the mayor of each New York,” said Mamdani. “Whether you voted for me, or for Governor Cuomo, or you feel too disillusioned by a long broken political system to vote, I will fight for a city that suits you, which is affordable for you, which is sure for you. I will work to be a mayor, you will be proud to call yours.”
The alleged democratic candidate was interrupted with Lander in a successful attempt to consolidate the support against Cuomo in the style of choice. Mamdani and Lander campaigned together in the weeks preceding the primary day.
New York Brad Lander controller arrives to speak during a rally after being released from the detention of ice on June 17, 2025 in New York. (Photo of Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)
Their combined totals would be sufficient to overthrow Cuomo as the classified voting towers take place, according to the election council ‘ Unofficial Tablelage Tuesday evening. According to The Associated PressThe tabs of classified choice will not start before July 1, it could therefore be some time before the finalization of the results.
Mamdani, who, among others, proposed to eliminate the prices to set up the vast bus system from New York, Making Cuny (City University of New York) “without tuition fees”, drop rents on municipal housing and “the free daycare” for children up to five years, was recently reinforced after winning an APP. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“In our New York, power belongs to the people,” said Mamdani after declaring victory.
The support of the progressive rock star and New York City The most eminent left -wing leader was followed a week later by an approval from Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the progressive champion and twice nominated with the Democratic presidential election.
With several candidates on the left in primary school, the approvals of Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders helped to consolidate the support of progressive voters behind Mamdani.
Once far in the polls of public opinion, Mamdami has jumped in the past two months in second place when he reduced the gap with Cuomo.
The former governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, the favorite of the primary race of the town hall of the New York Democratic Party, talks to a large crowd of union supporters, the day before, on June 23, 2025. (Paul Steinhauser / Fox News)
The Cuomo campaign in the last weeks of primary has criticized Mamdani as a “dangerously inexperienced legislator” while praising that the former governor “has managed a state and managed crises, cocovated to Trump. “”
“The mayor of the city of New York is the CEO of one of the largest companies in the world. It is not a job for a novice,” said Cuomo on the eve of the primary. “It is not a job … for a training course. We need someone who knows what he does on the first day because your life depends on it.”
Cuomo and his campaign also targeted Mamdani for his controversial and provocative position against IsraelWhat criticisms suggested addressed anti -Semitism.
“We are against calls to globalize the intifada, declaring the open season on the Jewish people. We are against those who glorify the terrorists of Hamas, who are intended to kill the Jewish people,” Cuomo said on the eve of the primary while he was aiming for Mamdani.
The candidates for the democratic town hall Andrew Cuomo, on the left, and Zohran Mamdani, on the right, present arguments like Whitney Tilson, center, examines during a primary debate at the Democratic town hall, Wednesday June 4, 2025, in New York. (Yuki iwamura / photo photo)
But the attacks were apparently not enough to dissuade the voters from New York.
Mamdani is now going to the general elections of November, where he will face Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the patrols with the fight against voluntary crime known as the Guardian Angels. Sliwa, for a consecutive second electoral cycle, is the republican candidate for the mayor.
Also on the ballot in November Mayor Eric Adams, A moderate democrat elected in 2021, which presents itself to re -election as an independence. Adams earlier this year abandoned its primary democratic offer when its approval notes have sunk to historic stockings.
Adams’ voter Plot even before he was charged last year with five counts, who accused the mayor of corruption and fraud as part of an alleged “long -term” regime to personally take advantage of contacts with foreign officials.
The mayor made repeated openings in Trump,, and the Ministry of Justice Earlier this year, the accusations of corruption, Adams could therefore potentially work with the Trump administration on its illegal immigration repression.
The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, who was elected in 2021 as a Democrat, presents himself to his re -election this year as an independent candidate. (New York mayor’s office)
The primary campaign of the mayor of New York played while the Democratic Party endeavors to escape from the political desert, after last year’s elections, when the party lost control of the White House, the majority of the Senate and failed to regain control of the GOP chamber. And he came then that the party works to resist the agenda of Trump’s second term and controversial.
Political analysts said that primary results would be considered a barometer from the Democratic Party leadership, towards the center if Cuomo had won and to the left if Mamdani was victorious.
“Zohran Mamdani’s probable victory shows that a new leadership for the Democratic Party is possible-a future of dynamic candidates who call on young voters and working class voters with a platform that fights for people, not societies,” said Stephanie Taylor, co-founder, progressive changes Campè Committee, in a press release.
Zohran Mamdani, an assembly of New York State and candidate for the Democratic Socialist Town Hall for New York, exceeded former governor Andrew Cuomo to win the primary of the Democratic Party of June 24, 2025. Mamdani was seen to campaign in New York the primary day. (Mamdani Campaign)
And pointed at Cuomo’s approvals earlier this month by former president Bill Clinton and the former mayor of three New York mandates, Michael Bloomberg, she accused of “the establishment of the old Democratic party guard, fueled by billionaires, did everything they could to defeat Mamdani – and they failed. They continue to be mistaken, and they need to go out. generation.”
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Before the primary, the moderate group aligned by the Democrats, The Third Way, said in a memo that they were “deeply alarmed” of the prospect of a victory of Mamdani.
“A Mamdani victory for a high -level office would be a devastating blow in the fight to defeat Trumpism,” said the group.
The Republicans quickly targeted Mamdani and the Democrats.
The National Committee of the Republican Congress argued that “the new face of the Democratic Party had just dropped, and it is straight out of a socialist nightmare”.